Türkİye, July 15 coup bid

Turkish MPs urge US to extradite FETO terror chief

Ruling AK Party’s MP Mehmet Mus says U.S. should not safeguard FETO's US-based leader Fetullah Gulen

Emin Avundukluoğlu  | 15.07.2019 - Update : 16.07.2019
Turkish MPs urge US to extradite FETO terror chief

ANKARA

A lawmaker of Turkey's ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party called on the U.S. to extradite FETO's U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen, who murdered 251 people in his July 2016 defeated coup attempt.

"We are repeating our call from Turkish Grand National Assembly once again. Do not safeguard the leader of the terrorist organization in your territory, who is the murderer of our 251 martyrs," Mehmet Mus, deputy chair of AK Party said in a plenary session, to mark the third anniversary of a 2016 defeated coup by Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).

He asked the U.S. to extradite the coup leader to Turkey.

"Any reason cannot legalize the coups. No reason can acquit the coup plotters," Mus said.

He also called on the international community to reject all coups and coup attempts without exception.

FETO and its U.S.-based mastermind orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016 in Turkey, which left 251 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.

Fighter jets under the control of coup plotters, bombed the parliament.

The opposition People's Democratic Party (HDP) Deputy Chair Hakki Suha Oruc called for improving Turkey's democracy against the coup attempts.

He expressed the need to improve universal democratic rights and freedoms in the future.

"Superiority of law, the values of democratic republic, and the institutions should be run and improved against the coup attempts,” Oruc noted.

Turkey marks June 15 as Democracy and National Unity Day, observing events to commemorate those who lost their lives, beating back the putschists and to remember bravery of the nation.

A number of structures and public spaces were renamed in the aftermath of the coup bid, most notably Istanbul’s Bogazici (Bosphorus) Bridge was retitled as the July 15 Martyrs’ Bridge.

Ankara also accuses FETO of being behind a long-running campaign to overthrow the legitimate state apparatus, through infiltrating into Turkish institutions, particularly the military, police, and judiciary.

Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) Deputy Chair Erkan Akcay said that the two-faced attitude exhibited by the U.S. against terrorism was glaring.

"FETO's traitors become the favorite for the U.S. and Europe after the PKK," said Akcay.

Akcay accused the U.S. working as a lawyer of the FETO, saying the FETO was their low-cost Trojan horse.

In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK -- listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU -- has been responsible for the deaths of some 40,000 people, including women, children and infants.

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